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Maverick Publishing Specialists Ltd, announced today the addition of three Senior Consultants to their worldwide team of industry experts. In addition to their industry experience and technical, analytical, and editorial skills, the new additions greatly strengthen the company’s ability to serve China and other countries in Asian markets.

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, is launching a new research project to provide publishers, societies and service providers with critical intelligence about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for research funding policy, university budgets and practices, and researchers’ capacity, processes and publishing choices.

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions supplier to the scholarly publishing community, is pleased to announce the upcoming release of a new Editorial Manager® API for repositories. This application will be developed as a “generic” API, enabling flexible integration opportunities for independent repositories.

Jisc, t​he UK digital solutions provider for education and research, ​and EMS Press sign a 3-year agreement giving institutions access to journal packages at special rates while allowing them to support Open Access with Subscribe to Open.

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Springer Nature is pleased to be one of the founding members of the new OAPEN toolkit for researchers and academic book authors. The toolkit is a free-to-access, stakeholder-agnostic resource that aims to help authors better understand open access (OA) for books, to increase trust in OA book publishing, to provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors, and to provide guidance in the process of publishing an OA book.

Research Square is beta testing the new artificial intelligence (AI) based SciScore assessment tool for its preprint platform. ScisScore will help scientists assess their manuscripts for reproducibility and adherence to rigor standards after uploading their preprints onto Research Square -- at no cost during the beta trial.

With the Frankfurt Book Fair not taking place as a physical event this year, Springer Nature is instead opening its doors to its first virtual hub.

Cambridge University Press has won the inaugural Sustainability Award at this year’s UK Independent Publishing Awards. The Press was named as the winner at a virtual ceremony on Tuesday, 22 September and the award was accepted by Helen Griggs, Global Director of Environment, Procurement and Supply.

University of Buckingham Press (UBP) is delighted to announce the launch of the Journal of Medical Education Research (JMER) to be published in conjunction with the University of Buckingham Medical School. The first Issue is scheduled to be launched mid-2021.

F1000 Research Ltd and Wellcome Open Research and have today announced the introduction of a new policy which enables transgender scholars to change their name on publications.

Identity and access management specialist OpenAthens has announced the details of its annual Access Lab conference which will take place virtually on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 March 2021.